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I'm Constantly Correcting Young People And Fashion Students In This Nation When They Say "well, I Do Couture." By Definition, You Don't. You Have To Be Licensed By The Government Of France To Do Couture. So Don't Use That Term. You Can Say That You Do One-of-a-kind, You Can Say It's Custom, But You Can't Say It's Couture - Because It's Inaccurate.

My Advice To The 10 Year Old Daughter Is: Fashion Happens In A Context. It's Societal, It's Cultural, It's Historic, It's Economic, And It's Political. So All Of Her Studies, Everything That Is Happening In The World, All Needs To Be Channeled Through Her In Order To Be A Good Designer.

I Always Say I Have A Socratic Approach To Most Things That I Do. I Pummel People With Questions, Because I Need To Know What They're Thinking, What They're Trying To Achieve, What They Believe The Final Outcome Is Going To Be.

What's Important To A Fashion Designer? It's Much More Than Learning How To Make Clothes. In Fact, That Merely Makes You A Dressmaker. It Doesn't Make You Into A Fashion Designer.

People Believe That If You're Concerned About The Clothes You're Wearing And The Larger Aspects Of Your Appearance, That It's Anti-intellectual. I Say "hogwash!" The Clothes We Wear Send A Message About How The World Perceives Us.